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ERITHACUS SUECICA* (Brehm, nee Temminck). 

 ARCTIC BLUE-THROATED ROBIN. 



(PLATE 9.) 



Motacilla suecica, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 336 (1766, partiiri) ; et auctonun pluri- 



morum (Selby), (Brehm), (Blyth), (Gould), (Sundevall), (Jerdon), (Newton). 



(Dresser), &c. 



Ficedula suecica (Linn.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553 (partini). 

 Motacilla cserulecula, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. i. p. 480 (1826). 

 Curruca suecica (Linn.), Selby, Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumb. i. p. 255 (1831). 

 Cyanecula suecica (Linn.), Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 350 (1831). 

 Phoenicura suecica (Linn.), Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 92. 

 Pandicilla suecica (Linn.), Bhjth, Field Naturalist, i. p. 291 (1833). 

 Ruticffla cyanecula (Wolf), apud Macgill. Br. B. ii. p. 300 (1839). 

 Lusciola suecica (Linn.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. pp. Iviii, 190 (1840, partim). 

 Cyanecula fastuosa, Less. Rev. Zool. 1840, p. 22<">. 



Sylvia suecica (Linn.), Nordm. Demid. Voy. Ritss. mend. iii. p. 135 (1840). 

 Sylvia cvane (Pall.}, apud Eccr*tn. Add. Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. fasc. ii. p. 12 



(1841). 

 Phcenicura suecoides, Jlodgs. MS. Drawings (in the Brit. Mus.) of B. of Nepal, Passeres, 



pi. xci. no. 703, wide 



Calliope suecioides; Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Cyanecula suecioides, Hodgs. Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 

 Erithacus suecica (Linn.), Deyl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 513 (1849). 

 Sylvia cferuligula, Pall.Jide Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 167 (1849). 

 Cyanecula cserulecula (Pall.), Bonap. Consp. i. p. 296 (1850). 

 Cyanecula dichrosterna (Pall.),jide Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 1 (1850). 

 Sylvia (Cyanecula) suecica (Linn.), var. cserulecula (Pall.), Middend. Reis. Sibir. 



Zool. ii. pt. 2, p. 177 (1853). 



Niltava fastuosa (Less.), Bonap. Compt. Rend, xxxviii. p. 34 (1854). 

 Cyanecula cyane (Evcrsm.), Bonap. Cat. Parzud. p. 5 (1856). 



* The earlier ornithologists did not distinguish between the Bluethroat with a white 

 spot on the blue throat, and the Bluethroat with a chestnut spot on the blue throat. 

 Some of them applied the specific name suecica to one species, and some of them to the 

 other, whilst a few applied it indifferently to both species. It seems probable that the 

 name was more or less misapplied by Linnaeus, Gmelin, Bechstein, Latham, Temminck, 

 Vifillot, Xaumann, Koch, Boie, Gould, Keyserling, Blasius, Gray, Bonaparte, Cabanis, 

 Degland, Gerbe, Loche, and some others. Ornithological blunders are soon forgotten ; 

 but to avoid the possibility of mistake, it is wisest for the present either to adopt Pallas's 

 name, which, so far as I know, has never been misapplied, or to append an authority to 

 the name which clearly denotes the species intended to be discriminated. It appears that 

 Brehm was th>first to distinguish between the two species ; but we cannot give him much 

 credit for doing so, because he was not content to make two species, but must needs split 

 them into five. Of the ornithologists who have misapplied the name, perhaps Temminck 

 is the earliest who applied it only to the wrong species. 



